The Clean Energy Show

Oil interests dominated the U.N.'s COP28 climate conference but reports of trouble lie ahead. What it will look like when oil begins its inevitible decline. Al Gore is angry and he should be. High speed rail to Las Vegas. And solar you can see from space on this special edition of the show!

• Brian's heat pump update involves switching to Farhenheit
• James's angry viral video on SaskPower and the Saskatchewan politicians who went to COP28.
• Canadian premier Scott Moe debunked.
• Al Gore TED talk anger ahead of COP.
• COP28 oil demand/OPEC NYT link (free)
• Electric car news - cuts from legacy automakers trying to make EVs.
• Can solar get too big? Yes. But here's how you fix that!
• News on various auto company's plans for vehicle-to-home/bi-directional charging plans.
• Tweet of the week. Minerals mined for batteries today will still be in use 130 years from now!
• High speed rail to Las Vegas.
• EV sales not as bad as you've heard in the media.
• Ireland's onshore wind boom and what's to come.
• Carbon pricing vs. carbon tax in Canadian politics.
• Reconsidering the Tesla Cybertruck but would you want it in your driveway?
• The Lightning Round - the latest news in climate and clean tech.
• Good news on the climate from Al Gore if we can only stop the emissions.

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With the future of the planet in the balance, COP 28 is providing wins and let-downs. Canadian oil premiers are there bandying about the word "sustainable." James argues the case against the Tesla Cybertruck and how it will end up being a distraction for that important company. Mayors of large cities have called for the end to fossil fuels. That's a good thing because a new study is telling us just how many people are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

• Cybertruck delivery event gives final details on the long-awaited electric pickup. But it's largely a disapointment.
• World mayors call for an end to fossil fuels.
• Letter: Suing the Saskatchewan government on climate inaction
• Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada at COP wanting the world to burn more oil
• Premature deaths from fossil fuels
• Canadian prime minister makes a video explaining what a heat pump is
• Michigan passes a law that requires their grid to be clean by 2040
• The Lightning Round
• Bloomberg NEF goes to China, finds out how much renewables they have (it's a lot more than thought!)

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The UAE is criticized for putting an oil exec. in charge of the annual UN climate conference. Coal has killed more people than first realized. The Pope goes big on EVs.

• Brian's heat pump tweaking in cold weather
• Norwegian national anthem
• Norway leads in heat pumps AND EVs
• Artificial Christmas tree off-gassing particulate matter and causing cancer
• Saskatchewan, Canada is greenwashing everyone at COP28
• The 'Sustainable Saskatchewan' campaign is looking for suckers
• Mail: Electric Zambonies
• Coal plant pollution more deadly than thought
• UAE's controversial COP 28 head
• SUV fad burned up 30% more fossil fuels than if it didn't happen
• The Lightning Round
• Chernobyl wind and solar in the exclusion zone

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Britain's aging nuclear reactors could cost $10.4 Billion each to decommision. Hyundai is going to sell its cars on Amazon.com. Frito Lays electric delivery truck network. Dominos delivers pizza on a heated e-bike. Saskatchewan climate law suit. Canada gets another battery factory, this time in the west.

• Local clean energy lawsuit against the Saskatchewan government
• Dryer vents in an air-tight house
• Local town poisons kids with CO2 from their gas Zamboni
• Best and worst cars for miles of range per hour of super-charging
• Frito Lay electric trucks
• Dominos electric bike
• UK nuclear decommisioning costs.
• Solar Edge home charger - use solar to charge your EV at home
• The world's largest solar farm just came online in the UAE. They installed the equivalent of one Sask Power solar farm per day (10 megawatts), for a total of 2 gigawatts peak output.
• Hyundai and Amazon partner to sell cars online
• Battery factory coming to British Columbia
• The Lightning Round
• Nigeria removes fossil fuel subsidies and society is shook to its core!

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Looking back 12 years to see how far we've come with clean energy, knowing that we have 12 to go before grids need to be decarbonized. The only SMR in North America to have a contract with a utility, just ended that contract due to skyrocketing prices and lack of subscriptions from utilities. Kim Kardashing creates a bra with built-in nipples as a response to climate change. Keep cool, Kim! 

• Brian goes on Canadian public radio to talk heat pumps and has a solution to all the confusion.
• Brian recalls the seven second delay in radio from his DJ days
• Using Chevy Bolts in Saskatoon's parking enforcement
• Dunkelflaute
• What to say to someone who says, "Canada only produces 2% of the world's emissions."
• SaskPower's EV Rewards debackle
• Looking back 12 years in clean energy shocks Brian. How far we've come!
• Cruise robotaxi problems
• Kardashian's nipple bra for climate change
• New Jersey and Kentucky grid updates
• Tony Seba's modelling for north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska. Only 4.25 days of storage needed.
• Tesla to sell Superchargers to Gas stations
• Diablo Canyon Nuclear update
• NuScale's problems with their SMR development
• The Lighning Round!

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Looking back 12 years to see how far we've come with clean energy, knowing that we have 12 to go before grids need to be decarbonized. The only SMR in North America to have a contract with a utility, just ended that contract due to skyrocketing prices and lack of subscriptions from utilities. Kim Kardashing creates a bra with built-in nipples as a response to climate change. Keep cool, Kim! 

• Brian goes on Canadian public radio to talk heat pumps and has a solution to all the confusion.
• Brian recalls the seven second delay in radio from his DJ days
• Using Chevy Bolts in Saskatoon's parking enforcement
• Dunkelflaute
• What to say to someone who says, "Canada only produces 2% of the world's emissions."
• SaskPower's EV Rewards debackle
• Looking back 12 years in clean energy shocks Brian. How far we've come!
• Cruise robotaxi problems
• Kardashian's nipple bra for climate change
• New Jersey and Kentucky grid updates
• Tony Seba's modelling for north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska. Only 4.25 days of storage needed.
• Tesla to sell Superchargers to Gas stations
• Diablo Canyon Nuclear update
• NuScale's problems with their SMR development
• The Lighning Round!

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Could you solve climate change with just solar panels and batteries if that's all you had? Decarbanizing Alberta's electrical grid by 2035. The Pembina Institute says you can. Humans can't see 30 years into the future, so why do we think we know how the climate gets solved by then? Plus, an electric motorcycle with huge range, a new windfarm for the U.S., elecctric semi trailers, emphasis on the trailers, and heat pumps in Canadian politics.

• Brian gets recognized/caught while buying his morning donut.
• A followup to Jenny Chase's Tweet storm on the state of solar
• Heat pumps in Canadian politics. Brian has one on the Canadian prairies
• EV motorcycle with huge range
• Mail: Can the Alberta grid decarbanize by 2035?
• LINK: Pembina Institue on the Alberta 2035 issue
• LINK: A modeler does Saskatchewan the same way
• Solar plus batteries in Mr Beast video, helping an African village
• BMW electric semi trailers
• Chevy Equinox EV U.S. pricing and details - it's still cheap!
• Largest offshore wind farm coming to the U.S.
• Tweet of the Week - coal waste vs solar waste
• Lightning Round!
• Looking 30 years into the future: we can never do it!

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Renowned solar guru Jenny Chase releases her annual state of solar tweet storm and its full of suprising facts and predictions. We find out what solar cannibalization is. Adonomous ride share company Cruise has suspended its operations after having its licence pulled in California. And electric shoes!

• More construction at Brian's house
• Vinfast on Jimmy Kimmel Live
• Weather stripping and how hard it is to do
• Eelectric shoes are wild
• Jenny Chase solar update
• EV industry update from Brian. It's struggling, for now.
• Listener mail: Electric fire truck
• Jenny Chase's non-solar thoughts
• The Lightning Round!

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We explore the sins of hydropower generation and why it's not used so much anymore. Japan is testing wireless charging in roads at stoplights. We have a new size record for offshore wind turbines and it's huge! Re-imagining food trucks to be battery electric. James's favorite clean energy podcasts and road fuel sales are dropping in Norway because of...you guessed it!

• Demons (1985) with a live orchestra
• Evs in Minnesota
• Supercharger experience
• Wind turbines in North Dakota
• Insane Alberta anti-renewable ad is full of fear and lies
• Letter re Judge John Hodgman podcast
• Japan wireless stop light charging
• Hydro electric dams are bad says letter LINK mentioned in letter: https://krdo.com/news/2023/10/17/dam-removal-will-require-closure-on-arkansas-river-near-salida/
• Battery food trucks
• Hollywood diesel generators on sets
• James's podcast suggestion: The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder
• 3.5 billion goes to grid improvements in the U.S.
• Podcast suggestion no. 2: The Energy Gang
• Road fuel going away in Norway
• Canadians need to use their clean rebates before a change in fed government
• The Lightning Round!

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A listener gets caught up in misinformation from a potential oil schill. A new study of real world trucking companies gives new hope to battery-electric long-haul trucking. Brian's electric drive trip to see the Judge John Hodgeman Podcast in the U.S. midwest. How the solar eclipse affected solar electricty. From St Paul, MN and Regina, Canada.

• Judge John Hodgman at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul Minnesota
• Safety Last at the Fargo Theater in North Dakota
• Electric drive trip through Minnesota to see John Hodgeman
• James's air purifier set off by the refinery toxins nearby
• Solar output eclipsed by the solar eclipse
• E-bike ruling in the E.U.
• Letters: caught in a web of youtube manipulation by an oil applogist
• New Zealand backtracks on clean grid
• 7 billion in funding for 7 regional hydrogen hubs
• Letters: hydrogen long haul trucking and criticism of the podcast
• The Lightning Round

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